Chapter 214 The earthen tribe 4 (1/2)

”So they want this city... I suppose they want to rebuild their country or something?”

Alex gave a smile before he spoke.

”I don't care what they want as long as I get my daughter back in one piece.”

”yeah... Okay I'll do it.”

Alex's face lit up in happiness right before he nearly let out tears of joy, Mars gave a sigh and said.

”Save those tears for when I return with your daughter... Now tell me the details, where was this bandit group last spotted, how many of them are there? and most importantly how do you plan to compensate me?”

After ironing out the boring details Mars and the group entered the city and found an inn to stay at, then Mars left the city alone to rescue the mayor's daughter. Once he walked out of the gates he quickly ran into a problem as a group of knights surrounded him, Mars put a hand on the hilt of his sword before he asked.

”What?”

One knight removed his helmet and spoke in an arrogant tone.

”Rejoice mercenary for we have been told to follow you into battle against the vile thugs that have taken miss Emma hostage.”

Mars thought for a moment before he gave a sigh and removed the hand from the hilt of his sword.

”Fine those of you that are able to follow me may...”

With those words Mars slowly lifted off the ground, as he began flying towards the sky leaving the knights dumbfounded as they looked up after him before eventually Mars disappeared  beyond the clouds. Now in the air Mars took his flight googles out of his pocket and put them on before he began flying south with his top speed, soon a sonic boom was heard over the capital of the former empire, this scared and confused some of the inhabitants but bedsides a small article in a local newspaper nothing was done about it...

A few hours after Mars left the city he began to slow down and dropped down below the clouds, and had already arrived in the area where the bandits were last seen. Below him was a small village when he looked down Mars slightly narrowed his eyes before he said.

”Bingo”

Mars flew down to the village that was currently being pillaged by a group of about 10 bandits, he unsheathed his sword as he flew down close to the ground and canceled his flying skill before he walked into the village and sent a sword light flying which decapitated one of the bandits. This got the rests of the bandit's attention as one of them let go of the villager he was tormenting and yelled.

”Get him!”

5 or so bandits stormed Mars that calmly walked forwards with his sword unsheathed, the process was swift and soon the bandits were fleeing. Without even talking to the villagers Mars once again took flight and followed the fleeing bandits hoping they would lead him to the rest of their group. Just as he had hoped after following them for almost an hour they entered a forest where Mars could see a lot of activity from above, Mars landed and followed after the bandits on foot and soon he hid behind a tree and peeked out.

'One, two, three sentries... This will be easy.'

Mars spotted three sentries at what looked like a makeshift gate where the fleeing bandits just passed though. Mars took a deep breath and activated [Instant movement] before he disappeared from view and reappeared in front of the gate at the same time the three sentries collapsed. They were all dead, Mars walked past the gate and soon he had made it somewhat far into the encampment but then he was spotted and the bandits began running at him in doves, The living god gave a sigh and sent out sword light after sword light that cut the bandits to pieces as he slowly walked forwards further into the encampment while giving a yawn. Soon a bandit appeared that looked like the boss, he was holding a teenage girl in his hands and held a sword up to her throat as he yelled at Mars.

”Stop right there!”

Mars did as he was asked and stopped walking and looked at the girl, she had the same hair color as Alex but he still asked to be sure.

”Are you Emma?”

The girls eyes lit up and so Mars gave a smile and said.

”Don't worry I will bring you back to your father Alex.”

”Hey don't you dare ignore m---”

It happened in an instant. The head of the bandit boss exploded as it did Mars' pupils shuck to the size of pinholes as he quickly activated [Half-awaken] and dodged to the side as a bullet flew right past his head with supersonic speed and buried itself into a bandit that was standing behind him. Mars activated [Instant movement] and disappeared from view as a hail of bullets flew down and killed every bandit in sight, then he reappeared next to Emma and swept her off her feet as he carried her and quickly took flight disappearing beyond the clouds in an instant... After a while a group of dwarfs appeared in the clearing, they were carrying guns with sound suppressors on and were dressed in camouflage gear.

”Primary target not in sight...”

”Damn it.... who, what was that, it dodged my bullet!”

One of the dwarfs looked over the bodies again before he gave a sigh.

”Anyway it got the primary target, let's get out of here before beasts come.”

””””Yes captain.””””

Mars flew above the clouds, he was on the way back towards the city with Emma that had fainted in his arms. Mars had never seen anything like what happened in the clearing, he was just happy that the group of dwarfs had mistimed their firing else he might have died.

”Never seen anything like it.... Damn it was sloppy work, that first shot was just too poorly timed and the follow ups might as well have been half a minute later... Whoever trained those soldiers how to use guns should be ashamed.”

As Mars grumbled Emma slowly awoke and looked around, when she realized she was flying she momentarily panicked and struggled to get free. Luckily for her Mars had a firm grip on her so she didn't fall, when she stopped Mars asked her.